Mind in Action
Everything that we see is the result of mind in action. We all have a body and we have what is called a physical environment; we could have neither if it were a physical environment; we could have neither if it were not for mind.
The law implanted within us is, that we need nothing except ourselves and this creative mind to make anything; and just so far as we depend upon any condition, past, present or future, or upon any individual, we creating chaos because we are dealing with conditions and not the causes.
Every living soul is a law unto himself, but of this great truth few people are conscious.
It seems difficult for the race, which feels itself to be so limited, to comprehend the fact that there is a power that makes things directly out of itself, by simply becoming the thing that it makes, and that is does this by self knowing.
But we will not demonstrate until we see at least some of this, the greatest truth about life.
We should realize that we are dealing with the principle that is scientifically correct.
It will never fail us at any time but is eternally present.
We can approach the infinite mind with a depth of thought and understanding, knowing that it will respond, knowing that we are dealing with reality.
Mind in Action
Monday, November 09, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Autonomic Nervous System
The Autonomic Nervous System
A major way by which the mid and body communication is through the autonomic nervous system (ANS), a group of nerves that regulate many of the body’s physiological processes, such as heart rate, blood pressure, constipation, sweating and incontinence.
Centers in the brain, principally the brain stem and hypothalamus, receive information about the state of the body and in response activate the nerve fibers of the ANS to maintain appropriate physiological balance.
For example, when you exercise, the ANS stimulates the heart’s pacemaker cells to increase your heart rate, thus increasing the amount of blood pumped to moving muscles.
The autonomic nervous system derives its name for the fact that its activities normally operate without conscious control.
Thus, you do not think about how fast your heart should beat or whether you should sweat to cool yourself when jogging.
Even though the ANS functions without conscious control the signal it sends to the body can be affected by thoughts and feelings.
For example, nearly all students are familiar with the nervous stomach and sweaty palms that accompany taking an important exam.
Realizing that it is possible to do poorly in an exam (a thought) leads to anxiety (an emotion), which activates the ANS to produce symptoms.
Panic has an immediate effect on breathing and heart rate, and stress can constrict blood vessels, causing headaches or high blood pressure.
Many students live fast-paced hectic lives that full of time pressures and stress. Besides doing school assignments many students work at jobs and nearly all try to maintain harmonious social relationship with family and friends, and which take time and attention.
More over, the modern environment is filled with cell phones, the Internet, TV video games, iPods, and other stimuli that compete for one’s attention.
Trying to accommodate all of life’s demands produces near continuous physiologic arousal mediated by the sympathetic nerves of the ANS, causing among other things, sleep disturbances, muscle tension, gastrointestinal symptoms and an increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
The Autonomic Nervous System
A major way by which the mid and body communication is through the autonomic nervous system (ANS), a group of nerves that regulate many of the body’s physiological processes, such as heart rate, blood pressure, constipation, sweating and incontinence.
Centers in the brain, principally the brain stem and hypothalamus, receive information about the state of the body and in response activate the nerve fibers of the ANS to maintain appropriate physiological balance.
For example, when you exercise, the ANS stimulates the heart’s pacemaker cells to increase your heart rate, thus increasing the amount of blood pumped to moving muscles.
The autonomic nervous system derives its name for the fact that its activities normally operate without conscious control.
Thus, you do not think about how fast your heart should beat or whether you should sweat to cool yourself when jogging.
Even though the ANS functions without conscious control the signal it sends to the body can be affected by thoughts and feelings.
For example, nearly all students are familiar with the nervous stomach and sweaty palms that accompany taking an important exam.
Realizing that it is possible to do poorly in an exam (a thought) leads to anxiety (an emotion), which activates the ANS to produce symptoms.
Panic has an immediate effect on breathing and heart rate, and stress can constrict blood vessels, causing headaches or high blood pressure.
Many students live fast-paced hectic lives that full of time pressures and stress. Besides doing school assignments many students work at jobs and nearly all try to maintain harmonious social relationship with family and friends, and which take time and attention.
More over, the modern environment is filled with cell phones, the Internet, TV video games, iPods, and other stimuli that compete for one’s attention.
Trying to accommodate all of life’s demands produces near continuous physiologic arousal mediated by the sympathetic nerves of the ANS, causing among other things, sleep disturbances, muscle tension, gastrointestinal symptoms and an increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
The Autonomic Nervous System
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sleeping
Sleeping
We cannot continue one form of activity very long without some kind of rest, for both the body and the mind need to rest.
The most complete kind of rest for mind and body is sleep.
When we sleep, the mind is largely free from its usual forms of activity, although our dreams show us that the mind is not entirely inactive.
The deeper the sleep the less distinct will be the dreams. The amount of sleep needed by various people differs greatly.
A young child needs twelve hours out of the twenty four for sleep, a growing boy or girl about ten, while most grown people require only about seven or eight.
Some persons seem to get on very comfortably with even less.
It is best to remember, however that we are much more likely to have little sleep than too much.
Sometimes a boy or girl takes a kind of pride in sitting up late and studying far into night.
This is likely to be done just before examination time under the impression that better preparation can thus be made for the tests. This is a great mistake.
Sitting up late to study, the night before usually renders one less fitted to pass an examination.
The many facts we try to cram into our heads during such midnight study are not all found there the next morning.
We are weary, and the brain does not work as it should.
To get a good night’s rest is a much better method of preparing for an examination than to study until the minds gets tired.
Sleeping
We cannot continue one form of activity very long without some kind of rest, for both the body and the mind need to rest.
The most complete kind of rest for mind and body is sleep.
When we sleep, the mind is largely free from its usual forms of activity, although our dreams show us that the mind is not entirely inactive.
The deeper the sleep the less distinct will be the dreams. The amount of sleep needed by various people differs greatly.
A young child needs twelve hours out of the twenty four for sleep, a growing boy or girl about ten, while most grown people require only about seven or eight.
Some persons seem to get on very comfortably with even less.
It is best to remember, however that we are much more likely to have little sleep than too much.
Sometimes a boy or girl takes a kind of pride in sitting up late and studying far into night.
This is likely to be done just before examination time under the impression that better preparation can thus be made for the tests. This is a great mistake.
Sitting up late to study, the night before usually renders one less fitted to pass an examination.
The many facts we try to cram into our heads during such midnight study are not all found there the next morning.
We are weary, and the brain does not work as it should.
To get a good night’s rest is a much better method of preparing for an examination than to study until the minds gets tired.
Sleeping
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